Luis Herrera

[software engineer]

About

I’m a working currently as a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who has worn the Tech Lead hat across many teams, helping discover and launch products and shape their roadmaps, MVPs, and legacy-migration strategies. My focus is cloud, serverless, and kubernetes architectures, along with infrastructure as code using tools like terraform and scripting, to run systems reliably in both development and production environments.

I also teach in master's programs, sharing what I’ve learned in industry. Along the way I’ve contributed to retail, medicine, credit risk, identity protection, banking, and academia.

Companies & experience

  1. ioet Inc.

    3 years 7 months

    Lead Site Reliability Engineer · Quito, Ecuador

    Joined as a Senior SRE for US online retailers — moving services to Kubernetes and GitHub resources to infrastructure as code, with CI/CD, observability, and geo-redundancy for high availability. I was then promoted to Lead Site Reliability Engineer — my current role — for a high-growth e-commerce and visual-health company, researching AI and agent-based solutions (MCP servers, agent skills).

    Talks: DevOpsDays Medellín , PUCE sede Esmeraldas

  2. Thoughtworks

    4 years 8 months

    Principal Infrastructure Consultant · Quito, Ecuador

    Joined as a Consultant Developer and, after delivering effectively on several projects, was promoted through Senior and Lead to Principal Infrastructure Consultant. Along the way I was Tech Lead of a distributed team across the US and Quito — owning stakeholder management, architecture, CI/CD, API best practices, and product discovery (roadmaps, MVPs) — and led an internal platforms community of 20+ people. As Principal, I led a six-engineer team for a banking client, kept a ~5M-user app highly available, and scaled Account Factory for Terraform to ~200 AWS accounts for a biomedical client.

    Profile: thoughtworks.com

    Talks: Thoughtworks Geek Nights , Campus Party , Ágiles , Open Source Summit Japan

  3. Kia Motors – Non-profit project

    2 months

    Software Architect · Quito, Ecuador

    Designed and implemented the software architecture for an embedded system built as an emergency response to the shortage of mechanical ventilators, also handling stakeholder management and the path to production.

    In the news: El Universo , El Comercio , Vistazo , YouTube

  4. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

    1 year 11 months

    Software Developer · Esmeraldas, Ecuador

    Worked on multiple internal projects spanning architectural review, development, process reengineering, and CI/CD-based deployment. Migrated core services from bare metal to virtual machines (Citrix, Docker) with monitoring tooling, and implemented a GLPI ticketing system with LDAP integration for single sign-on.

    Talks: TICEC 2017